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Harappan

adjective, noun

Harappan is spelled H-A-R-A-P-P-A-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Harappan means “Relating to Harappa or its ancient civilization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Harappan?

Letters8: H-A-R-A-P-P-A-N
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Harappan?

Harappan appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of Harappan

  • Harappans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Harappan mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to Harappa or its ancient civilization.

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Harappa.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Harappan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchharapéen

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Harappan come from?

From Harappa + -an.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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